REU Site: MURALS (Materials-focused Undergraduate Research Applied to the Life Sciences) at UMass Amherst

REU 站点：MURALS（以材料为重点的本科生研究应用于生命科学） at UMass Amherst

• 批准号: 2150075
• 负责人: Shelly Peyton
• 金额: $ 39.18万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150075&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; MURALS; Materials; focused

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Non-Technical SummaryThis REU site offers research opportunities for 10 undergraduates each summer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst). This REU site is unique in that it will give students training in how to create advanced materials and how to use these materials to tackle grand challenges in biology. Students work in laboratories at the biology/materials interface, take part in both professional development and technical training provided by the REU site, and learn from near-peer and lab mentors to guide student career development. The site has outstanding mentors from leaders in the field from both Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at UMass Amherst. All labs are physically and intellectually connected through the Institute for Applied Life Sciences at UMass. Industry site visits and entrepreneurial outreach activities help expose students to potential career opportunities in biotechnology. Partnership with the other professional development programs at UMass supports recruitment and mentoring of REU students across all backgrounds to ensure everyone has an equal opportunity to research opportunities at UMass. Recruiting efforts at several minority-serving national conferences, as well as partnerships with minority-serving institutions via the Diversity Office in the College of Engineering at UMass ensures opportunities for students from traditionally underrepresented groups in STEM. Evaluation efforts track the long-term outcomes for students from these groups. Technical SummaryThis is a new REU site (MURALS: Materials-focused Undergraduate Research Applied to the Life Sciences) at UMass Amherst, developed to offer research opportunities for 10 undergraduates each summer, broadly in the area of materials for bioengineering applications. The PI of this REU site, Prof. Shelly Peyton, is an expert in bioengineering, with a focus on applying biomaterials development toward solving complex problems in biology. This site has 10 host laboratories, with faculty from the Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering departments at UMass Amherst, who are both physically and intellectually connected through the Institute for Applied Life Sciences at UMass Amherst. The overarching objectives of the MURALS REU Site are to: 1) Recruit and encourage students from traditionally underrepresented groups in engineering to do research at the interface of materials and the life sciences; 2) Inspire students from all backgrounds to pursue graduate studies and/or professional careers at the interface of materials and the life sciences; 3) Train students to be effective scientific communicators, through carefully planned workshops on writing, presentation skills, and working amongst diverse groups of scientists; 4) Integrate REU students within the broader scientific community at UMass Amherst by pairing students with peer mentors outside the lab; 5) Allow students to explore their interests in entrepreneurship, through a partnership with the technology development office within IALS, the Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) at UMass, and industry Site visits; 6) Provide students with professional development workshops and tools (e.g., career choices, ethics in research, interviewing strategies, time management) to instill the techniques to succeed in any industry long after they leave MURALS. Recruiting efforts at several minority-serving national conferences, as well as partnerships with minority-serving institutions via the Diversity Office in the College of Engineering ensure opportunities for students from traditionally underrepresented groups in STEM. Evaluation efforts track the long-term outcomes for students from these groups.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》的全部或部分资助的（公共法117-2）。Non-technical摘要Thisthis REU网站每年夏天在马萨诸塞州阿默斯特大学（UMass Amherst）为10名本科生提供研究机会。 此REU网站的独特之处在于它将为学生提供如何创建高级材料以及如何使用这些材料来应对生物学挑战的培训。 学生在生物学/材料界面的实验室工作，参与REU网站提供的专业发展和技术培训，并向近点和实验室导师学习以指导学生职业发展。 该地点拥有来自UMass Amherst的化学工程和生物医学工程领域领导者的出色导师。所有实验室都通过UMass应用生命科学研究所在身体和智力上联系。 行业现场访问和企业家外展活动有助于使学生获得生物技术领域的潜在职业机会。 与UMass的其他专业发展计划的合作关系支持在所有背景的REU学生的招聘和指导，以确保每个人都有平等的机会研究UMass的机会。通过UMass工程学院的多样性办公室与少数族裔服务机构的合作伙伴关系在UMass的多元化办公室与少数族裔服务机构的伙伴关系确保了来自STEM传统代表性不足的团体的学生的机会。评估工作跟踪这些小组学生的长期成果。 Technology Thimarythis是一个新的REU网站（壁画：适用于生命科学的材料的本科研究），该研究适用于Amass Amherst，该研究旨在为每年夏天的10个本科生提供研究机会，广泛地在生物工程应用材料领域。此REU网站的PI，Shelly Peyton教授是生物工程专家，重点是将生物材料开发应用于解决生物学中复杂问题的问题。该站点有10个主持人实验室，由UMass Amherst的化学工程和生物医学工程系的教职员工，他们通过UMass Amherst的应用生命科学研究所在身体和智力上既有联系。壁画REU网站的总体目标是：1）招募和鼓励来自传统上代表性不足的工程群体的学生在材料和生命科学的界面上进行研究； 2）激发来自各种背景的学生，从材料和生命科学的界面上从事研究生学习和/或职业职业； 3）培训学生通过有关写作，演示技巧的仔细计划的讲习班以及在不同科学家群体中工作的仔细计划的讲习班； 4）通过将学生与实验室外的同伴导师配对，将REU学生与UMass Amherst更广泛的科学界相结合； 5）允许学生通过与IALS中的技术开发办公室，UMass的生物技术培训计划（BTP）以及行业现场访问来探索他们对企业家精神的兴趣； 6）为学生提供专业发展研讨会和工具（例如，职业选择，研究中的道德，访谈策略，时间管理），以灌输在离开壁画后很长时间在任何行业中取得成功的技术。通过工程学院的多样性办公室与少数族裔服务机构的合作伙伴关系，在STEM中传统上代表性不足的团体中的学生提供了机会。评估工作跟踪了来自这些小组的学生的长期成果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评论标准通过评估来支持的。